Research

Unembedding Steering Benchmark

Hugh van Deventer, Itamar Pres, Liam Cawley

2024

Sentiment-steering experiments comparing learned directions with token-unembedding baselines. The evaluator now counterbalances answer positions, and a retained Qwen recheck measures a preset intervention against an unsteered baseline.

nanoSandbox

Liam Cawley

2024

A nanoGPT notebook and deployment notes for a single Linux host with three A10 GPUs. The corrected CPU smoke configuration has been run; distributed-scaling and collective-performance results are not part of the retained record.

DDPM-Inspired Single Image Super Resolution

Sophia Tesic, Liam Cawley, Alexandra Lavacek, Namitha John, Dennis Lin

Course project, University of Michigan|2024

A course project exploring direct image-to-image models for 2× super resolution. Review of the retained notebook exposed training/evaluation overlap and a pixel-range error; the published record now includes corrected evaluation code and reproducible checks.

Context Manipulation Attack Benchmark

Liam Cawley

2023

Conversation-history poisoning implementations with corrected diagnostics and matched clean-history controls. A retained three-prompt Qwen check rejected the fabricated advice; earlier simulator-generated statistics are not treated as model results.

Phased Array Calibration via Metaheuristic and Learned Optimizers

Liam Cawley, Gabe Ronan

EMAG Technologies, Inc.|2023

Hardware-in-the-loop phased-array calibration using discrete search, cached measurements, and a CNN surrogate. The tested configurations achieved a 6.5× reduction in beam-synthesis error relative to the SMI baseline.

Shake-Shake Regularization in ResNet Architectures

Liam Cawley

Course project, University of Michigan (Qing Qu)|2023

A CIFAR-10 course project comparing CNN configurations with Cutout and Mixup and a custom ResNet with Shake-Shake. The report records configuration-level accuracy differences, without a controlled ranking of the regularizers.

Autonomous Fixed-Wing UAV

Liam Cawley

2021

A 1.6 m MFD Crosswind Mini build with a Pixhawk Cube Orange, camera payload, and autonomous takeoff and waypoint flights. The accompanying design report now separates the completed build from proposed SUAS mission capabilities.